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1 month ago | 
artistsofutah.org | Brian Christensen
Salt Lake City, UTMarch 27 – March 29, 2025Reception: Friday, March 28, 4:00 – 5:30 PMIn Petrified, ceramic artist Brian Christensen explores clay’s transformative journey, connecting art to earth by drawing parallels between clay formation and geological transformation in Utah’s landscapes. Through intricate ceramic sculptures, Christensen reflects on the enduring passage of time and the process of material evolution.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Chris Purdie |Brian Christensen |Brigham Young
KeywordsThe Speakers, voice box, black speakers, sculpture, artCollegeFine Arts and CommunicationsAbstractThe Speakers (Voice Box) is a six-foot cube made of two hundred-twelve black speakers. The point of departure for this sculpture is found in an art historical dialog between Minimalist art and the criticism of Michael Fried. In this piece I examined the phenomenology of perception as it applied to Minimalist artist Tony Smith’s sculptures—specifically Die, a six foot steel cube.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Brian Christensen |Brigham Young
Keywordsinstallation, salt, salt pipeline, photographsCollegeFine Arts and CommunicationsAbstractI decided to do the installation in May because that gave me the right weather for the installation as well as enough time to prepare for the exhibition of the sculpture at BYU. I had made most of the boxes for the salt and had the salt ready for transportation to the site. I rented a truck from BYU to transport all two thousand pounds of salt to Southern Utah.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Brian Christensen |Brigham Young |Chuck Switzer
Keywordsbotany pond, sculptural installationCollegeFine Arts and CommunicationsAbstractI guess I can write about a couple of the different aspects of this project. I am under the assumption that a paper of this nature is intended to be a report on how and why I did this project and how I interpret its results. This said, I will continue. Recommended CitationSwitzer, Chuck and Christensen, Brian(2013)"BOTANY POND SCULPTURAL INSTALLATION REVIEW,"Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013:Iss.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Michael Francom |Brian Christensen |Brigham Young
Keywordssculpture, historical time line, sculptural historyCollegeFine Arts and CommunicationsAbstractTime is a constant in our lives. We are completely wrapped up in its influence. We relate everything we do to this marching enigma. Its outward markings are day and night, equinox and solstice. What separates the present from the past or the future? How does the principle of entropy relate to times passing? Does time cause us to age or does our getting old mark time?
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Will Mahoney |Brian Christensen |Brigham Young
Keywordswood sculpture, construction limitations, spiritual significanceCollegeFine Arts and CommunicationsAbstractWood is a sculpting medium that possesses a natural beauty, a beauty which can be enhanced by manipulation. Wood facilitates much creativity in form, has inherent strength, but can also exhibit construction limitations. One of the objectives driving this research project was to broaden the usage of wood in the field of sculpture.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Brian Christensen |Brigham Young |Jeffrey A. Goodsell
KeywordsWeeping Wuntzel Tree, conceptualism, sculptureCollegeFine Arts and CommunicationsAbstractFor this show, my work started out being a look at life, and the places we struggle to attain to, but I quickly found out that my work is more about beauty than anything. I feel that the project was very successful indeed because not only was I able to create a large body of 32 pieces for the show, but I learned some things about my work and myself that I didn’t realize before.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Michael Whiting |Brian Christensen |Brigham Young
KeywordsSundance resort, sculptural space, reliquaries, nesting structures, beginCollegeFine Arts and CommunicationsAbstractThis creative grant resulted in three sites of sculpture that were displayed at Sundance resort, April 1 through April 30, 1999. These three sites were intended to create a dialogue between the man made objects themselves and their surroundings.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Jared Clark |Brian Christensen |Jared Lindsay |Brigham Young
Keywords modernist painting, sculptures, geometric forms, visual art College Fine Arts and Communications Abstract “The history of painting may be characterized in terms of the gradual withdrawal of painting from the task of representing reality – or of reality from the power of painting to represent it – in favor of an increasing preoccupation with problems intrinsic to painting itself…painting and sculpture became free to pursue concerns intrinsic to themselves.” -Michael Fried, critic...
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
scholarsarchive.byu.edu | Jason Palmer |Brian Christensen |Brigham Young
KeywordsAmerican Sagger process, kiln, atmospheric control, color productionCollegeFine Arts and CommunicationsAbstractThe aims and purposes of this ORCA funded research project were two fold; first the funds would be used to renovate a heavily used kiln in the ceramics department to allow for greater atmospheric control, operator’s ease of use, and general safety.
